Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

Data preview: All civil servants / Responsibility_level_grouped / Profession_of_post / Responsibility_level_ungrouped

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Status Year Responsibility_level_grouped Profession_of_post Responsibility_level_ungrouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2023 AA/AO Commercial AA 30 25 21640 22920
In post 2023 AA/AO Commercial AO 380 355 23730 22500
In post 2023 AA/AO Communications AA 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Communications AO 170 160 23190 22500
In post 2023 AA/AO Corporate Finance AO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Counter Fraud AA 20 20 21260 21250
In post 2023 AA/AO Counter Fraud AO 1595 1385 23150 21690
In post 2023 AA/AO Digital, Data and Technology AA 30 30 21890 22040
In post 2023 AA/AO Digital, Data and Technology AO 550 530 23260 22500
In post 2023 AA/AO Economics AO 65 65 23110 22830
In post 2023 AA/AO Finance AA 35 30 21220 21380
In post 2023 AA/AO Finance AO 1035 935 23250 22520
In post 2023 AA/AO Geography AO 35 35 21700 21690
In post 2023 AA/AO Human Resources AA 80 70 21230 21380
In post 2023 AA/AO Human Resources AO 1195 1110 22860 22220
In post 2023 AA/AO Inspector of Education and Training AO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Intelligence Analysis AO 90 80 24540 25060
In post 2023 AA/AO Internal Audit AA [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2023 AA/AO Internal Audit AO 20 20 27880 26100
In post 2023 AA/AO International Trade AO [c] [c] [c] [c]
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Notes: Summary figures are suppressed when information relates to less than 5 civil servants for FTE or Headcount, and less than 10 civil servants for median and mean salary (shown as [c]). Zero responses and salaries for less than 30 civil servants have been suppressed for GPDR special category data. FTE figures are not shown for entrants or leavers due to data quality concerns for these groups. Figures are rounded to the nearest 5, or £10 as appropriate.

Data source: All figures are aggregated from the Cabinet Office Annual Civil Service Employment Survey collection.

Version: Generated on 2023-07-26, with GIT d545f65.

Data column Description
Status Employment status of the civil servants.
In post - includes staff that were in post on the reference date (31 March).
New entrant CS - includes new entrants to the Civil Service over the year (1 April to 31 March).
Leaver CS - includes leavers from the Civil Service over the year (1 April to 31 March). This includes employees who have an Unknown leaving cause.
Leaver Dept. - includes leavers from the department over the year (1 April to 31 March), who did not leave the Civil Service.
Four organisations do not report when their employees first entered the Civil Service and so entrants data for these organisations is not available . These are as follows: Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (excl. agencies), Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office Services, Scottish Forestry and Forest and Land Scotland. A further three organisations also could not provide entrants data in 2021. These are as follows: Department for International Development, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (excl. agencies) and Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
Year Year of data collection (as at 31 March).
Responsibility_level_grouped With the exception of the centrally managed Senior Civil Service, government departments have delegated pay and grading. For statistical purposes departments are asked to map their grades to a common framework by responsibility level.
This table shows staff in their substantive responsibility level unless on temporary promotion in which case staff are recorded at the higher responsibility level.
Responsibility_level_grouped combines the mapped grades into five broad responsibility levels. This is the headline measure for responsibility level for the Civil Service and is consistent with the published National Statistics.
Responsibility_level_ungrouped With the exception of the centrally managed Senior Civil Service, government departments have delegated pay and grading. For statistical purposes departments are asked to map their grades to a common framework by responsibility level.
This table shows staff in their substantive responsibility level unless on temporary promotion in which case staff are recorded at the higher responsibility level.
Responsibility_level_ungrouped shows the mapped grades at a higher level of detail, however not all Government Departments / bodies have distinct grades that map exactly to these levels so figures should be considered as approximations and treated with caution.
Profession_of_post Professions relate to the post occupied by the person and are not dependent on qualifications the individual may have.
Of the 20 bodies under the Scottish Government, 16 did not report any professions information for their employees.
Headcount Total number of civil servants (rounded to nearest 5).
FTE Total full-time equivalent (FTE) employment numbers (rounded to nearest 5).
FTE figures are not shown for entrants or leavers due to data quality concerns for these groups.
Mean_salary Average salary (mean, rounded to nearest £10). For part-time employees, salaries represent the full-time equivalent earnings, while for full-time employees they are the actual annual gross salaries.
These figures should be interpreted with caution when the total number of employees in a group is small, as they will tend to show more variability than larger groups (i.e. may be much higher or lower than can be explained by the data shown).
Median_salary Median salary (rounded to nearest £10). For part-time employees, salaries represent the full-time equivalent earnings, while for full-time employees they are the actual annual gross salaries.
These figures should be interpreted with caution when the total number of employees in a group is small, as they will tend to show more variability than larger groups (i.e. may be much higher or lower than can be explained by the data shown).